The Singapore Free Press, 3 July 1947

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALA YA L896. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1947 PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    PARIS TALKS CLOSE WITH THREATS
    378 1 PARIS TALKS CLOSE WITH THREATS Bevin hits back at Molotov THE "Big Three" talks ended in Paris last night with an acrimonious exchange of warnings between Mr. Molotov and Mr. Bevin and M. Bidault. Britain and France will continue their discussion of the Marshall plan without Russia. In his last
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    43 1 I :u EN vmrkel, widow p :'r N liavt labour boss i u led .it Nuremberg, i. -\nj.\\ l>enazificat vs fy her as a r and sentence i 1 <H)0 marks and t ;.r> bation for three k k mother of ten hikhrea.
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    Gang that took capital routed
    182 1 MANILA, Wednesday. i !;H heavy fighting, military police today routed scaped convicts who seized and held Carapan, !<>f Mindoro Island, for several hours after capturing military police arms and uniforms and disarming the p<> < r the Governor, a Congressman and other officials. I brec
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    SEVENYEARSFOR SHOOTING
    79 1 SEVEN YEARS FOR SHOOTING Sapper Edward Arthur Earnshaw (29). was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude at the Surrey Assizes. Kingston, yesterday, for shooting at a police constable, with intent to resist arrest. Earnshaw was also sentenced to five years' preventive detention as a habitual criminal. The medical ofticer of
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    20,000 HOMELESS
    79 1 THE Mississipi Rver yesterday stood for nearly 12 hours at the highest mark in 103 years as army engineers fighting a losing battle against the stream, moved their forces south in the hope of saving several towns. The river has risen to 40.3 feet. The near record flood
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    WORLD JAMBOREE
    33 1 SCOUTS from Ceylon and British Guiana are arriving in England this week to join the British Empire contingent of 6,000 scouts for the World Jamboree in France on Aug. 9.- Reuter
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    U.K., FRANCE OPPOSE U.S. SYNTHETIC
    207 1 U.K., FRANCE OPPOSE U.S. SYNTHETIC LONDON, Wednesday. BRITAIN and France are in agreement in opposing the I use of synthetic rubber to the extent currently followed in the United States, it was learned toi day from a source close to the 12--nation international Rubber Study Group now meeting in Paris,
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    AFGHANISTAN CLAIMS THE N.W. PROVINCE
    130 1 AFGHANISTAN CLAIMS THE N.W. PROVINCE LONDON, Wednesday. AFGHANISTAN is reviving its J\ claims on the North-west Frontier Province of India, a Foreign Office spokesman said in London today. A note from Kabul, claiming the greater part of the territory between the River Indus and the present Indo-Afghan frontier is now
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    22 1 Slit HAN HOE LI VI Chairman of the Select Committee of the Advisory Council, which has reported on the new educational proposals.
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    BCOF CHIEF OF STAFF
    31 1 Air Vice-Marshal J. P. P. Macauley has arrived at Kure, Japan, to relieve Air Vice-Marshal Bladin as Chief of Staff of the British Commonwealth occupation forces. Reuter
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    RAW RECRUITS IN CHINA BUTTLE
    51 1 Manchuria Wed. 3 mauled 83th the AmericanTlSl Army. 1 1 anp irta ,t 1 :j.x recrui's i s training rd.; ol th€ 5 Chinese Comi■ r Commißiista j v also, but it is' G venuneni c-.-iti- 170,00€ Communists m the assault a..d BlUes are high.
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    BUDGET SURPLUS
    40 1 The United States Government has closed the 1947 fiscal year with a budget surplus of $754,--000.000—first surplus since 1930 when revenue exceeded expenditures by $738,000,000, Mr. John W. Snyder, Secretary for the Treasury, announced in Washington yesterday. Reuter
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    JAP NAVY BASE KNITTING PLANT
    40 1 VOKOSUKA, former bastion of I the Japanese Navy, which, once echoed to the hum of machines turning out torpedoes and guns, is now resounding to the click of knitting and sewing machines making: under- clothing.
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    'HRHI' for the princess
    66 1 riE Hull licence regbiry office said ;e.->Urday that it had allocated a licence plate No. HRH 1 to Princess Elizabeth for her New Daimler sports car purchased for her by the King. lI KH is a prefix of all Hull licencs plates. No. 1 had been
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    INDIES PROBLEM NOT FOR U.N.O.
    161 1 INDIES PROBLEM NOT FOR U.N.O. LONDON, Wednesday. IN the House of Commons, Mr. Hector McNeil, Minister of State, replying to Mr. Philip Piratin (Communist) said that as negotiations in Indonesia have not broken down, the question of referring the matter to the United Nations did not arise. In Jogjakarta a
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    PAREITS FIND 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL STABBED
    59 1 PAREITS FIND 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL STABBED A CHINESE couple living near J\ Jurong returned home yesterday to ftnd their 14-year-old daughter dead, with four knife wounds on her head and neck. There was no apparent motive for the murder, but the police are seeking a 48-year-old man, a lodger in the
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    SCHOOL FEES CUT URGED
    258 1 Free Press Staff Reporter REMISSION of school fees by five to ten per cent., increasing the percentage as finances permit, is recommended by ihe Select Committee of the Singapore Advisory Council as the first step in the introduction of free primary education in the Colony. The
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    NEW DRIVE ON CORRUPTION IN SINGAPORE
    221 1 NEW DRIVE ON CORRUPTION IN SINGAPORE Free Press Staff Reporter rPHE SINGAPORE Police have begun to quote the -1 CID chief, Mr. R. C. B. Wiltshire, "an intensive drive against corruption in the Colony, and more arrests can be expected in the near future. Mr. Wiltshire said the Anti-Corruption Branch,
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    NO U.S. ASMS BAN ON CHINA
    99 1 WASHINGTON. Wednesday. MR. George Marshall, United States Secretary of State, told a Press conference last night that the recent sale of American munitions to the Chinese Central Government did not indicate that the United States Government was supporting the Chinese Government in its civil
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    WAYLAID, ROBBED
    26 1 Three men waylaid a Chinese in Florence Road. Singapore, at 10.30 p.m. yesterday, and robbed him of $3.60 cash and a two-dol-lar fountain pen.
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    CHILDREN SHOULD STUDY U.N.O.
    72 1 QR- Trygve Lie UNO secretaryv general, will open a personal campaign at Lake Success this week to require school children of all 55 United Nations to study the activities and purposes of the United Nations. Lie believes the growth of the United Nations depends o n
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    PRIORITY URGED FOR NEWSPRINT
    97 1 MR. Thomas Skeffington-Lodge. Al Labour MP. for Bedford, said yesterday that he will ask the Board of Trade in the House of Commons next Tuesday whether it will consider the purchase ot more newsprint at the expense of some less important commodity. He will ask the
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    VISITING IRELAND
    14 1 The Argentine training cruiser La Argentina berthed at Dublin Harbour yesterday morning.
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    AR TIST'S ASSIGNMENT IN BRITTANY
    538 2 AR TIST'S ASSIGNMENT IN BRITTANY Reporting On Art JBy Pierre Jeanerrat IN a final paroxysm of energy, Christopher Wood spent a summer month painting more than 30 pictures in Brittany, and about a week after his return to England threw himself under a train at Salisbury station. This happened in
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    TODAY'S BRIDGE PROBLEM
    303 2 "|\ONT tell me my hand wasn't worth a two heart bid,' protected South when the smckc had cleared jv*ay. And v/hen a man can say that after being set 1100 points at that self-same bid, perhaps it is useless to tell him particularly sine? he can cite
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    Mandrake
    9 2 Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya
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    BRITONS IN AMERICA
    250 2 AS an actress, at least, Dedorah Kerr would hardly know she has left England. The picture she is work'ng in has an ailBritish cast, excepting Walter Pidgeon. And he s a Canadian. {Technically, Miss Kerr is a Sco torn in Helensburgh, but reared in Alford, Sussex, and
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    COMPULSORY RUSSIAN
    101 2 COMPULSORY RUSSIAN DUSSIAN will be a compul- sory study in all German schools in the Red Zone starting Sept. 1, 1947: The Berliner Zeitung reports that instruction in the Russian language will begin in the fifth grade of elementary schools. Before the war, Russian was not even taught in German
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    S'pore's First Ice
    619 2 FREE PRESS SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ITNTIL an American U in the eaily days of the last century thought of exporting blocks of pond and river ice to the hot countries of the world, Singapore's stengahs, gin slings and arrack punches were tepid and the mint juleps of NewOrleans
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    THIS OLD WORLD
    277 2 MAN lives in an old section of the universe. 4;hat is the conclusion of astronomers after a survey of approximately 44,000 stars in this section of the milky way, which has just been reported to the American national academy of sciences. Scars, like everything else in the
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    17 2 Pamela Matthews, young British starlet, is trying her own egg*. She is wearing a ratty plastic apton.
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    SCOTT FORGOT HIS LINES
    194 2 SCOTT FORGOT HIS LINES IF you have ta must have some time or turn Kentucky ICiftetn other words r Whaley. But of late Har: foct"> Scott cOUldn his lines. For 49 years Scat friend Eddie Whaley ed their lines togetru i put their names Uit hall and radio history Scott
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    YOUR LUCKY STAR
    211 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune torecast 4 people tx»rn bodfrl BORN today, you haw independent and *l t:ir even an Lunulsive nature. Km ideas are highly original ui too often, you become h annoyed because ethers refii to see eye to eye with pm Instead of giving bfttt* will burst out
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    6 2 Wood's "Pony and Trap, Ploare Briiany".
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      80 2 QUIZ Answers 1. A Liverpool woman M.P 2. <a» Hitler's attack on Russia (b) Rhine Army"s transfer oi ex-Wehrmacht to the land: (Cl Rhine Army's transfer of German children from Berlin. 3. Newfoundland. THE ORCHARD DRESS SHOP Newly Opened at 29 ORCHARD RD (Aminr Muwai SMART SELECTION AMERICAN MORNING AFTERNOON
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      711 2 SINGAPORE AUSTRALIA 7.4S Qperts Round-Up: t pm. News ani lil m t i« <W> m to IJ 1S P- m VLA6 19. ."1 Hcme News Flashes; 8.05 Heard Mclo--151 lie [Network /uetres 15.40 megacycles; 1.00 p.m m dies Are SAxet; 8 45 Rhjthm in tfte i-15 p.m. VLlib 13.89 metres
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    20 3 Thousands of Jews seek relaxation from the turmoil of events in Palestine and enjoy the sun on Tel -Aviv beach.
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    9 3 Ib i:>rn>ati;n i MTTVaI Ut 0 :w. \cv. ork.
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    'FRANCO: ROOSEVELT PLEDGE NOT KEPT'
    535 3 'FRANCO: ROOSEVELT PLEDGE NOT KEPT' U.S. is blamed for anti-Stain feeling THE nations which recognised Franco Spi'n eight }e rs ago, are now attempting to make the same government and people appear as a danger to peace, despite their pacific acts. Generalissimo Franco told United Press in an exclusive interview.
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    UNKNOWN
    146 3 \l ltcn l*i America) go when Island, rt oi New worth of >ther people i an ing them me I liana of today. 5h prices, traffic says Dr. Leon I (he Ch: v okee in Manhattan, I people Aho ilaiid back to the quarts of whuls now figure that
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    TRAGEDY AFTER DON'T GO PLEA
    137 3 twu intrbjr ber father .i.i.i she should not go a man was referred to at the inquest at ry] Lilian May Bromley, 22, <,f Bourne- Henry George Rackham, 33, of Bourne- und shot in a car in the New Forest. nroed a verdict murdered Mrs.
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    Britons pity Nazi wives
    287 3 WITCH HUNT CONTROVERSY THL am* -Nazi witch hunt lor the wives and widows of 1 Goering and the other 17 major Nazis sentenced at Nuremberg has raised the argument up and down Germany, in German homes and in Allied messes and clubs: Should women pay for
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    FOR WHOM BELL TOLLS-3s. MORE
    84 3 DETAILS have b:>en issued of the new charges authorised j by the Ecclesiastical Commission- I ers for church marriages and for burials. i Ur.der the new scale marriage i after licence means 20s. for the minister, instead of 155., and 'Os.j for the clerk instead
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    49 3 Mirin Dajo, a 35-year-uu Dutchman, stands unconcernedly with a. raider thrust through his bedy at a demonstration at the University Clinic at Zurich, Switzerland. Dajo says that he feels no pain and suffers no after-effects, and it was noted that there was no bleeding from the re--2 pier ids.
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    WOT, NO SCOTCH!
    35 3 INDIA is to issue no more import licences for Scotch whisky. Imports in 1916 totalled £745,937. The Argentile has suspended permits to import whisky '•'out may cancel this decision at any time.
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    BO AC pilot's record
    72 3 CAPT. Edward Alcock, of BOAC, has completed ?0.t)00 hours of flying equal to 2>i years in the air. He has covered a record 5,000.000 miles. Aged 47, and brother of the late Sir John Alcock. who with Sir Arthur Whitten Brown won the C 16.000 Daily
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    'GRANDFATHER' SAYS: I AM THEIR FATdSR
    105 3 'GRANDFATHER' SAYS: I AM THEIR FATdSR II7H&N he was 36, Lester Burnett widower, of Los Angeles, fell in love with Angelina Pizutto. 17. Her parents objected to his age, so Bursett asked his son, Lesier, 18, to be Angelina's husband in name only and let him live in the same
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    NEW CAR SPEED BID AT UTAH
    92 3 TR^aD only ihe thickness of a visiting card will be on the tyres of John Cobb's car when ne attempts to break his own landspeed record of 369 miles an iour at Utah salt flats in August. The rest of the tyres' thickness will
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    He Was Navy's Mr. Chips
    61 3 rv\H£ BojaJ NaY] 1^ tosing its "Mr. Chips" "Daddy" Hughes, 1 teacher, father confessor and friend of 6,000 officers who passed through the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in the last 37 years. Now he is resigning. Scores of cadets whose names are now part of
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    ARAKAN POSITION HAS IMPROVED
    53 3 mHE situation in the Arakan A division has "improved considerably," U Ba Maung, Inspec-tor-General of the Burma Police. told Reuter at Rangoon. There was, the police chief added, no likelihood of the early relea^ of U Seinda, Arakanese Separationist leader, who is imprisoned at Thrawaddy, north
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    THE LITTLE MAN HIT BACK HARD
    225 3 A STAND-IN for film stars in tough scenes when there was a risk of being hurt, died in a street fight, after forcing a quarrel on a man smaller than himself. And the little man who fought because, it was said, he felt he
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    NO KING OF BEASTS
    35 3 i Farmers are demanding comj pensation for stock losses caused by lions wandering from the Kruger National Park. They bold the Government responsible Tor breeding such vermin in exI cessive numbers."
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    MASSES FLEE U.S. FLOODS
    303 3 FLOODS are creating widespread distress and damage to crops in the United States. Many rivers, especially in the Middle West, are now in flood, some of them the highest for 38 years. The quantity of melting snow on the mount-ins, is 30 per cent, higher than
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    HAWAII TO BE 49th STATE
    68 3 The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to make the Hawaiian Islands a state, adding the 49th star to the United States flag. The vote was 196 to 133 and the Bill was sent to the Senate for action. During a spirited debate objectionr were
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    MAKING THE FENLAND FLOODPROOF
    145 3 MAKING THE FENLAND FLOODPROOF A £5,000.000 scheme to make n the Fens flocxiproof is being prepared by the Great Ouse Catchment Beard for submission to the Government. The Bo;.rd ausks for a governi ment grant of 90 per cent, to carry out the scheme. The project involves cutting a big
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      52 3 I Jane senses trouble By Edgar Rice Burroughs *jT„ M^S^J^CfWB --JANE'S GUARDS, AWAKING IN 1 flfc JANE, MEANWHILE, LIMPED ON THE l^&u&W— JBaBy^E^BT '^5 CONSTERNATION, HURRIED TO OVER- L^^ ■ftT\lSB HftflKP^^ TRAlL HER MAT£ HA0 TAKEN WlTH THE JdEM| WXff \5 TAKE HER N 6 TRA,L Ll^BL HUNT£RS SUDDENLY HER
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, JULY 3. 1947. Rural Singapore
    641 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, JULY 3. 1947. Rural Singapore AT a ume wh/in urban Singa- pore's civic progress is under discuss on, it is welcome news tfcat eMoris r.re at !a<t being ma^e in rural areas t) obtain closer laiscn between tr.e Government arid people by the formation of
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    THREE ROADS TO ROME
    1322 4  - THREE ROADS TO ROME ALEXANDER CLIFFORD w THE bells of St. Feter's shake down their golden notes into the heavy Roman sunshine. The pigeons wheel among the foundations. The pilgrims come and go, packed into shabby vic.orias drawn by scrawny horses. Cardinals and Monsignori glide by in their sleek American
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    QUIZ
    57 4 1. Who is Bessie Braddock Is she (a) founder of the Spinster's League <b) a Liverpool woman M.P. (c) the author of "Trees" (d) first girl swimmer to 1 eat a meal under' water 2. What were: (a) operation Barbarossa; (b) operation barleycorn (c) operation stork. 3. Which is
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    NO MAP ALLOWED
    38 4 THE Chinese Government has banned publication of maps of China including sovereign waters without government authorisation. Also banned was the reproduction or sale in China of Chinese maps printed abroad without government approval.— Associated Presa
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    FAITH
    18 4 The earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the elory of the Lord. HABAKKUK 2, 14.
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    The Emancipation Of Africa
    455 4 A GREAT chain of selfgoverned native cities is planned in the South Africa of tomorrow, a unique step in the emancipation of the teeming native population of the Union. Plans have already been drawn up for the first city which is to be established, on the
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    'BATS'SHOW THE WA YIN
    789 4 'BATS' SHOW THE WA YIN ELYING on and off the deck of an Aircraft Carrier capped the thrills of my life time, writes Major D. H. de T. Read, who was invited to the air exercises at sea off Singapore just before H.M.S. Glory, set off en route for Australia.
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    191 4 THE man sawn the v- v march of Soa iet Russia Ibe?an in SfDt«- m!> r1 Russia halved Poland with V Germany Fh<e s;i:n<- \e-f"' land was atta< k-d anc Finnish frontier nu>h"d r^l In Jun<> i«i4;t the L frontier suffered the uunel In August, the Balti< SUte< Estonia. Latvia,
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    PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
    172 4 FORTY- YEA. CEM.E GROMKB ehnrp 4 In Par: murder o! ).< r I v PSOfJONT, I*, is alleged th I triendly w:th th< b husband was a When Fr' leave her Mm accused h:m of t i8.000.000 Cranes It is allege d shi when he vac HOLLYWOOD
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    CHINA TRADE EXHIBITION
    175 5 S'pore arrangements Free Press Chinese Correspondent ARRANGEMENTS are being made by the Chinese Trade Commissioner's Office to hold a Chinese Goods Exhibition in Singapore as soon as preparaIjobs can be completed and samples shipped by maiiuraiturers in China. Many Chinese manufacturers in Shanghai, Tient- Honor Kong and
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    61 5 I l.i-ut tnd >lr>. H. Smith cutt'ng tli" cake at the Moantbatten ib last Monday after their weJdin^ at St. Andrew's Cathedral. Ih fr-J". formerly Jean>tte Jacobs, arrived a week aso in Sin- ipmrc .iiter a record -breakin!: tour of Burma with the CSX. h..a Dut :md About." Fit. Lieut.
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    H.K. Only Stable Place In East
    196 5 H.K. Only Stable Place In East i I v K was almost the orJy in Ui€ Far East where i sense of stability. dom from ■"squeeze"' m jfficialdcm. V-:r- the well-known ma ilisl an 3 Indepcr.d- M Parliament, de-j ed ir. an article published in' r ay's N wa Chronicle.
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    EAST-WEST TALK
    32 5 The weekly meeting of the EastWest Sooiety wiil be held at 8.30 tcnight at the Y.M.C.A. hall, S-cimfcrd Road. Mr. V. W. Frampton wiil speak on "Colour, Custom and Creed."
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    S'pore malaria risk stressed
    407 5 A WARNING that Singapore must continue to be exposed to the risk of "small explosive outbreaks of malaria" as long as labour remains inadequate and the cultivation of food a primary concern, is sounded by the Deputy Municipal Health Officer, Dr. L. E. Hutchinson, in his
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    143 5 On arrival at Melbourne recently, Sourabaya Sue said: "I have Scotch parents, a Balinese name, and until 1945 an American passport. Now I'm just a fugitive from the Dutch." Sourabaya Sue's Baiinese name is Miss Ketut Tantri. She hit the news headlines when sue reached Perth with no passport, and
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    CO-OP MEETING
    29 5 The 18th annual general meetin? of the Singapore Government Servants' Co-operative Thrift and Loan Socle v. ixa., win be held t\:day at the Council Chamber, Government offices.
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    S'pore needs Crematorium
    197 5 Free Press Staff Reporter \SINUAPOi-tb Municipal Commissioner. Mr. N~, r Sen Choy, in an Interview with the Free Press yesterday, said that the Municipality should reconsider the construction of a public crematorium, which it approved, in principle, b fore tli v' r. Mr. Ng recalled that just
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    PHILIPPINES MAY EXPEL CHINESE
    64 5 SEVEN Chinese, including some who entered the Philippines Illicitly as children, are now facing deportation proceedings, although they have lived in that country as law-abiding citizens and paid ail their taxes conscientiously Commissioner of Immigration, Mr. Engracio Fabre, announced in Manila yesterday. Mr. Fabre is conducting
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    3 WOMEN IN POST OFFICE
    107 5 Frro Press Stall Reporter THREE women are now employed on counter duties in tnc Singapore General Post Office. They have been recruited by the Post Office under the new scheme which throws open jobs to women, offering them equal prospects of advancement as men. The
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    'A SOUL-LESS GOVT OFFICIAL'
    315 5 FLECTIONS supervisor, Mr. G. Hawkins, told the Rotary Club yesterday all about elections in Singapore, but he said: "I regret that I can't answer really interesting questions. There are 501 reasons the odd one because I probably don't know the answer and the remaining 500 because
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    2,000 TONS SEA FOODS FROM JAPS
    283 5 2,000 TONS SEA FOODS FROM JAPS Shipment due Free Press Chinese Correspondent JAPANESE sea food will be arriving in Singapore in a few weeks' time. Orders placed by the Singapore Government some time ago, totalling 2.000 tons, have been met. The first shipment of these tinned foods, including items like
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    3 5 DR. MARY TAN
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    55 5 Winner of the "Yearling" Haby Competition held by MetroGo'.dwyn -Mayer in Singapore, was Juliet Choo Guek Chu, (above) 11 month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Choo Teck Hong. The second and third prizes were won by Julia Margaret Steeley and b?h\ Claadette "an; consolation prizes went to Gordon William Swyny,
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    COST OF LIVING UP AGAIN
    149 5 COST OF LIVING UP AGAIN Free Press Staff Reporter REACTING to the May cut in the rice ration, fto co t 'J. living index in Singapore jumped six points during the month of June, compared with May figures. According to official figures compiled by the Government cost-of-liivng index during tne
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    AIR CADET CORPS MEETING
    51 5 J MEETING of the Alaiaya A*r <■> Cadet Corps will be held b£ 11 a.m. this Sunday, at Kalians ."'port, to review th: j ictlvitiei o* Group No. 1 of the Corps. The plans and site of the pressed Corps Headquarters will be _:iade known at
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    S'PORE NEEDS MORE HOSPITALS, NORSES
    232 5 S'PORE NEEDS MORE HOSPITALS, NORSES MORE cheaper hcspitas and m re doctors, ti.ir.ei nu:\-. .<? and public etiucat on a e tha urge t needs of Bing9j> re, said Dr. Mary Tan, of the Singapore Public Health bervfeft, in an interview wilh United Press in Washington. Er. la 1 said
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    $10 MILLION FOR CHINA
    96 5 THE Rockefeller Foundation L#i depjsited $10,000,000 in serurities as its final conirjbution to the China Medical Boar^ Incorporated. With this deposit made in the Chase National Bank, all re atijnship between the Board nd the Foundation h?_6 termina.- d. The action is in line with ihe
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    KING'S TITLE TO CHANGE
    141 6 THE Governments of all the Dominions are being asked to agree to the alteration in the title of the King as Emperor of India when the Bill setting up two Dominions in India is passed. Under the Statute of Westminster, which governs relations between the Dominions
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    IT MADE HIM HAPPY
    38 6 Severuy-four-year-old George filth, pleading guilty to smashing ten plate glass windows in London, told the magistrate: "It gave me great satisfaction, and I am prepared to take the consequences." The consequence: 18 months.- U.P.
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    UNDERGROUND MOVE IN CANTON
    400 6 UNDERGROUND MOVE IN CANTON Secession bids in China forecast CANTON, the traditional "Mather of Revolutions" in China may shortly fulfil that role once again, in the opinion of experienced foreign observers in South China, reports United Press. They foresee the eventual disintegration of the Central Government in the wake of
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    48 6 Royal Marines carrying out a "commando raid" at the Royal Tournament at Olympla. Object was the destruction of a railway bridge in a country which might be Norway, and this bridge, almost on the level of Olympia's high roof, had to be reached by climbing a perpendicular cliff.
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    HITLER'S MEN ARt ADVISING PERSON
    86 6 (\N ihe eve of the visit to London of Eva Peron, 27-year-old exactress wife of the Agentine President, the British Government has been given proof that her husband employs four of Hitler s men as his advisers. These Germans, named by the International Committee for
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    U.S.. SAYS IT AGAIN
    112 6 rnilE Wew York Wall Street JourX nal, the "bible"' of American big business, lends its powerful voice to the "Britain is dying" prophecy made by the magazine Look. Only by food, petrol, ar.d tobacco import cuts can the Government make ends meet. "It is thp British
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    TERRORISTS SMASHED
    39 6 Salonika police broke up an alleged terrorist gang which killed two gendarmerie officers and had planned to blow up the main power station, according to Press reports, which said that between su ana 50 were arrested.— U.P.
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    ALLIES FEED THEM
    35 6 Oust of 119,000 tons of food shipped into the British and U.S. Zones of Germany in one week was £4.125,000, equally divided between U.S. and British taxpayers, it was announced in Frankfurt.
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    EGYPTIAN ARMY EXPANSION
    347 6 F)R the first time in a century military service will be com pulsory for Egyptians of all classes if a Bill now before Parliament is approved. Service at present is nominally compulsory on all Egyptian subjects between the apes of 19 and 27, but certain classes among
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    31 6 S<-m- of the 232 New Zealand Remits, who and the liner BangitAte, on iher way to attend t 1 boree, which is h ing h Id next w:e!i al M i
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    35 6 Princess Elizabeth presents the Challenge Cup to Rcgim -n;«il Sergt.-Major W. A. Tait, of the 2nd P.n. the Seaforth Highlanders, after his team had won the Army (130 stone) tug-o'-war competition at the Royal Tournament.
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    WHY HORSES LOSE THEIR TAILS
    243 6 AN explanation fur the finding of horses without tails at Diss (Norfolk) is suggested b y Mr F B. Palmer a Norwich riding master, is that the tails have been bitten off bv other horses needing: salt. "It is well known that horses g.iaw each
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    Soviet bid to discredit U.S.
    311 6 Soviet bid to discredit U.S. RLSSIAX-CONTROLLED newspapers in Germain ing a campaign obviously aimed at shaking U r mans' faith in America by predicting that In;,-; economy is headed for crisis and depression, reps \P. from Berlin. Spearheads of this campaign are the ot&c a of the Soviet military administration
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    DEATH LAY IN WATT
    31 6 Tree-rHmlrfng at Bwhurst, Sur rey. while picnicking with otfeer children Iris May Buckland. 13 of Esust Dulwich, touched a cable □anying 11.000 volis and was killed instantly.
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    RUSSIA LETS TIH"M GO
    17 6 RUSSIA LETS TIH "M GO One hundred i:. I Genr.an POW> will be sent honi< by Ocl
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      72 6 JANfc Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malava »£r™I:L is llLv <~^^ A Fthe apology is Wyou see i come of^I ""safcj t&ltifl M'NE "T IS ONLY 1 f A VERY OLD FAMILY Hgla "<>" FOR THE I y SAY > ,A V 4 BRONX! ORIGINAL IS A BUSINF<;<;
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    KRAMER AND TOM BROWN IN FINAL
    674 7 KRAMER AND TOM BROWN IN FINAL JRaife Beaten In 60 Minutes WIMBLEDON, Wednesday. THERE will be an all American final in the men's singles 1 championships at Wimbledon, the two Californians, Jack Kramer and Tom Brown, having today earned the right to do battle for the title on the centre
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    GODDARD WINS RACE FOB 100 WICKETS
    441 7 LONDON, Wednesday. I GODDARD, Glouceste shr^s right -arm spin towhr, wha is nearly 47 years of age, became the first cricketer complete his hundred wickets of the season when he disused IVikr. t f Surrey, at the Kennington Oval, yeste day. Y idard was
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    BANKA S.C. SOCCER
    51 7 tan hove bj:n selected to Utt Banica Spcrts Club RUM of sccct-r ag?.;nst Mlitary Unit. Pasir M the Med:cal College Saturday: n Sang, Ycon Checn- Joen- ntian Tock. Ov.en Bon-. Eugene K-n Kioon. M^k Sane. Kim I Meng Chung, Michael Loh. *>n Baa. Ye, 3 n son
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    HOME CRICKET AVERAGES
    229 7 THE following are the best batting and bowling averages in Eiisliih cricket up to June 20 inclusive: BATTING (Qualification: 10 innings) Not Highest L Lills. l_:. Runs. inns. lOOs.Aver j 1113 212* 4 111.30' Ames 16 6 C W_«shbr_>o__ 13 3 878 251* 4 87.89 w J
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    AIRMEN v MEDIANS IN LEAGUE TODAY
    150 7 THE r.A.F. and the Indians arc 1 the opponents in today's league soccer match at Jalan Bcsar Stadium. It the Airmen win, as they should on their form against the Chinese Seniors last week, they will move to third place in the tables with
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    CERDAN TO RETURN TO NEW YORK
    69 7 MARCEL Cerdan, the European middleweight boxing cham- pion. will return to New York in the middle of this month. His manager. Lucien Roupp, said he had thus far failed to 1 arrange a title bout between Cerdan and the winner of the J bout
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    VILJOEN HITS CAREFREE 130 v NEWCASTLE
    341 7 NEWCASTLE, Wed. THE South Africans were 151 runs ahead with three wickets still t o fall at the close of play j in their two-day match against j Northumberland which began here today. The home side scored 182 after losing thci r first three
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    4-DAY HENLEY REGATTA OPENS
    310 7 Henley-on-Thames, Oxford, Wed. THE strong overseas entry in Henley's Royal Regatta, which opened its four-day programme with 34 races here today in good but threatening weather, was not called upon to race other than in the Diamond Sculls and Thames Cup. In the Diamond Sculls. Jack
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    Wimbledon Challenger
    34 7 Rub 1 alkenburg, one of the American challengers at Wimbledon, Avho was eliminated by Dinny Pails on Monday. This piviure was taken during the match in which Falkenburg beat O. W. Sidwcll.
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    Sports Council Meets Tomorrow
    551 7 Sports Council Meets Tomorrow j 'THE draft rules of the constitution cf the Singapore OJym- J. pic and Sporis Counc 1 will be pieseated at a gen.ral 1 meeting which will be held at the Secretariat at 5.1 p.m. j tomorrow. Mr. L. C. Hutchings, President of the S.A.F.A., will
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    COTTON IN LEAD WITH RECORD 69
    255 7 British Open Golf HOYLAKE, Cheshire, Wednesday. BRITISH golfing prestige recovered much of its lost glory here today when professionals cf the hoire country too* commanding positions in the first round of the British open golf championship over the testing Royal Liverpool Club course. The
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    U.S. FIGHTS FOR BRUCE WOODCOCK
    89 7 Tom Hurst, manager of Bruce Woodcock, is going to th- United States for two or three months to make arrangements for Bruce Woodcock. Henry Hall, Tom Reddinßton and Tommy Maloy to visit the United States about September or October. Woodcock, who wanted to meet Joe
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    Owners And Jockey Are Cautioned
    136 7 Owners And Jockey Are Cautioned LONDON, Wednesday. CHARLES SMIRKE, the jocke>, and Mrs. Priseilla Cillson, Mrs. lan Henderson and Mr. Barnard Hankey, owners of .Monsieur L'Amiral, were cauticned by the stewards of the Jockey Club at Newmarket today for the difference in the running of Monsieur L'Amiral in the Churchill
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    CONFIDENT MARINO WILL BE CHAMPION
    156 7 GLASGOW, Wefl. "AM ICHINOSE, personally confident 0 that the little fighter whom he i manages, Dado Marino, of Honoluiu, I wiil be the next flyweight champion of the world, departed for London today to cast a professional eye en nose ether flyweights. Ichincse went to
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    CHAMPION TURNS PRO
    134 7 LONDON, Wednesday. fJAPHNE WALKER. BrLish ,ee skaiing champ.cn who was rti^rded as uie chief Br.tish hepe for u:e ftj;re sk.i.ing ti.ie in next, .year's Olymp.c garnet, has turned professional. She will appear in a new ice show a: Brighton on j u i y 19. Miss Walker
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      37 7 Today's Sports Events SOCCER: S.AF.A. league, 2nd Round, R.A.F. v Indian Assn., Jalan Besar Stadium, 5.15 p.m.; friendly game, S.R.C. v R.A.FChangi, S.R.C. 515 p.m. VOLLEYBALL; Y.M.C.A. v A.C-S.. Y.M.C.A. tennis ground, Bra, Basah Road, 5.15 p.m.
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      250 7 Free Press Crossword Mo. 1W I lij CLUES ACROSS 1. One of two cranes for lowering or raising ship's boat (5) 4 An ear specialist (6), 7. Sprites or goblins of Arabian tales (5). 8. Where is the Bridge of Sighs? (6). 9. Lateral control flap at rear of aeroplane's
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    IN TOUCH WITH FOREIGN POWERS
    78 8 FE U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. George Marshall, told the Pres 5 in Washington yesterday that some of the 10 employees, recently discharged by the State Department for disloyalty, lost their jobs because of their indirect association with representatives of foreign powers. Mr. Marshall said
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    ROMANCE ON SHIP: THEY WED HERE
    118 8 ROMANCE ON SHIP: THEY WED HERE INTRODUCED aboard ship, engaged in Port Said and married in Singapore Mr. and Mrs D Madgin will continue as bride and groom the voyage they began as strangers. They were married in Singapore yesterday. Mrs. Madgin, formerly Mrs. R. Hobbs, was returning to Hong
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    GOVT. DEFEATED ON LAND BILL
    115 8 LONDON. Wednesday. rE Conservative opposition in the House of Lords, which defeated the Government ten times during the committee stage of the Transport Nationalisation BilL tonight again twice defeate. the Government during discussion of the Town and Country Planning Bill. This Bill gives the Government
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    Japanese sword threat alleged
    309 8 Free Press Correspondent IPOH, Wednesday. ALLEGED leader of the Malay secret society, "Parang A Panjang", Sheik Idris stood trial in the District Court, Ipoh, today on a charge of obstructing the police in the lawful apprehension of a convicted person. The court was unusually crowded, with
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    BIKINI: 6 WEEKS ATOM TEST
    96 8 SAN DIEGO, Wednesday. THE U.SJS. Chilton steamed towards Bikini today for a scientific survey of the atoll one year after the atomic bomb tests. The Chilton will be joined at Pearl Harbour by the rescue vessel Coucal and in the Marshalls the task group will
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    SINGAPORE TIDE
    20 8 July 3, 1947 High 11.32 a.m. 8.3 ft. 10.32 p.m. 9.4 ft. Low 4.47 p.m. 4.8 ft. picture.
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    AIR POWER AND EMPIRE DEFENCE
    152 8 LONDON, Wednesday. THE difficulties besetting the vital problem of global air force figures under the Security Council of the United Nations and the commanding necessity of a solution were stressed by Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, former Air Commander-in-Chief, Couth East Asia, when be
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    SHOT BY PRISONER?
    48 8 A r-- uh I. spsctor was shot dead by one of tho three persons he was conducting by motor-car. The men had been arres ed in connection with the recent disturbances in Paniala, a town near Dera Ismail Khan, in the NorthWest Frontier Province.- Reuter
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    CO-OPS POPULAR m KAMPONGS
    352 8 Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. A FEATURE of the development of the co-operative movement in Malaya since the re-occupa-tion has been the enhanced popularity of co-operative stores in rural areas says an official report. The main reason for this, it is stated. Is the
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    TO CONVERT DUTCH
    34 8 An Indian missionary, M. Q Hafiz, has arrived at The Ha^ue to convert the Dutch to Mohammedanism. He plans to open a mosque in the Netherlands as *3oon as possible. Reuter
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    U.K. MAY FURTHERREDUCE HER IMPORTS
    315 8 U.K. MAY FURTHERREDUCE HER IMPORTS World trade hit by shortage LONDON, Wednesday. THE Lord President of the Council, Mr. Herbert Morrison, 1 warned today that the shortage of dollars may force Britain to make still greater cuts in her imports "cuts which would slow down industry and lower still further
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    59 8 picture. i.. „~i> iiotojraph taken after the wedding of the Hon. Rosetta Mancroft-Samuel to Mr. A. J. Bos lock Hill, Judge of the Supreme Court, Johore, yesterday afternoon. Standing from left to riff hi are Mr. W. Martin McCall. Crown Counsel, Johore, Mrs. McCall, Mrs. Murray-Aynsley, bridegroom and bride, and
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    24 DIE IN MINED SHIP
    37 8 About 24 men of a crew of 46 were drowned when the Turkish steamer Silivri sank in the Aegean Sea after striking a stray minenear Bodroum on the Smyrna coast yesterday.- Reuter
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    Duty May Be Levied On Film Earnings
    128 8 Duty May Be Levied On Film Earnings LONDON, Wednesday. THE House of Commons tonight approved a resolution givnns the Treasury power to levy a duty on the value of cinematograph films. The Chancellor of the £>:- j chequer, Dr. Hugh Dalton, said if a choice must be made he would
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    MONTY AND THE OLD SOLDIER
    83 8 Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, addressing a whistling and cheering crowd of Australian ex-Servicemen in Canberra, told them it was quite wrong to expect the state to provide prosperity. "The State can only provide the opportunity," he said. "If we want
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    OUTRAM RD JAIL 'INADEQUATE'
    38 8 Free Press Staff Rt porter AN overseas prisons officer now visi ing Singapore said yesterday that he was surprised to see the lack of adequate prison facilities at Outram Road Jail. MR. W. SHILLINGFORD
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    SCHOOLS
    187 8 I onunued iium Page 1 will intermingle should be established as soon as passible. Steps to develop intermingling in Chinese and other vernacular schools should be taken as early as practicable; and, in particular, Govcrnim-etnt should at an early dc.te institute new "regional" vernacular schools. The early change in
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    ACTOR COLLAPSES
    56 8 Thousands of television viewers last night saw Robert Adams— a negro actor star of "Men of Two Worlds" collapse in a faint while playing the Duke of Morocco in the Merchant of Venice at Alexan. dra Palace. An official of the BBC said Adams was apparently overcome bv
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    NEGRO BRIGADIER
    32 8 Brigadier-General Benjamin O Davis, highest-ranking Negro officer in the United States Army, is 10 Participate in the centennial v clebration of Liberia's independence as the President Truman's 't^rsonal representative. Reuter
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    Rubber Futures
    37 8 PRUDE rubber futures yesterday V closed 40 to 55 point* higher Sales totalled 35 contracts. September 14.55 (U.S.) cents. December 14.60 (U.S.) March 14.70 nominal. Number 1 ribbed smoked sheets 14 a/4 nominal. A. P.
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    ALL SECTIONS ARE QUIETER
    449 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Wednesday. aN the Stock Exchange today, there was further p -a in of business in all sections. Even the specul-ti. intentf normally seen at the start of a new account wms <r writes Reuters financial correspondent. Giit-edgeds were quiet, and there was
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    RUBBER PRICES
    222 8 A SPECIAL Market correspondent gives the price* of rubber &s 11 am today as follow per V M ft No 1 R.S.S Spot loose H No 1 K.SS. foe in bales July 2* No 1 R.S.S fob in bates J«ly K N> 3 R S S fot> in
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      81 8 WEATHER Mainly cloudy: some rain WEATHER report for the next If 24 hours compiled by the R.A.F: Mainly cloudy, with seme bright periods. Scattered thundery showers this afternoon and evening. Wind: Very variable, mainly j north-easterly. 5 knots. Sunset 6.4* p.m., sunrise 6.23 a. it:. Moonrise 6.44 p.m., mconset 7.02
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